I was fishing the Gregg river a couple weeks ago and I caught a rainbow with the top half of his tail missing. It seemed like a pretty clean cut. Would this have been a bull trout bite or a cut deliberately by someone?
if it was a clean cut then i dont think it would be a bully. But one wouldn't think that a human would chop off a tail then put the fish back, but you never know there are some crazy people out there.
aside from that how was the fishing? were on the Gregg were you fishing?
When you say the Rainbow was missing part of its tail, I am guessing you mean the caudal fin, and not the actual fleshy caudal peduncle? Upper caudal fin clips (with scissors) is a common non-permanent method of marking previously captured fish when conducting population estimates. The missing portion of the caudal fin will grow back.
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